American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

2009 - 2025

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Volume 3, issue 4, 2011

Informal Taxation pp. 1-28

Benjamin Olken and Monica Singhal

Public Provision and Protection of Natural Resources: Groundwater Irrigation in Rural India pp. 29-55

Sheetal Sekhri

Health Capital and the Prenatal Environment: The Effect of Ramadan Observance during Pregnancy pp. 56-85

Douglas Almond and Bhashkar Mazumder

The Consumption Response to Seasonal Income: Evidence from Japanese Public Pension Benefits pp. 86-118

Melvin Stephens and Takashi Unayama

Government Advertising and Media Coverage of Corruption Scandals pp. 119-51

Rafael Di Tella and Ignacio Franceschelli

Climate Change, Mortality, and Adaptation: Evidence from Annual Fluctuations in Weather in the US pp. 152-85

Olivier Deschenes and Michael Greenstone

Subsidized Farm Input Programs and Agricultural Performance: A Farm-Level Analysis of West Bengal's Green Revolution, 1982-1995 pp. 186-214

Pranab Bardhan and Dilip Mookherjee

Economic Shocks and Civil Conflict: A Comment pp. 215-27

Antonio Ciccone

Re-examining Economic Shocks and Civil Conflict pp. 228-32

Edward Miguel and Shanker Satyanath

Volume 3, issue 3, 2011

Government Transfers and Political Support pp. 1-28

Marco Manacorda, Edward Miguel and Andrea Vigorito

Do Value-Added Estimates Add Value? Accounting for Learning Dynamics pp. 29-54

Tahir Andrabi, Jishnu Das, Asim Khwaja and Tristan Zajonc

Financial Constraints and Inflated Home Prices during the Real Estate Boom pp. 55-87

Itzhak Ben-David

Low-Skilled Immigration and the Labor Supply of Highly Skilled Women pp. 88-123

Patricia Cortés and José Tessada

Marrying Up: The Role of Sex Ratio in Assortative Matching pp. 124-57

Ran Abramitzky, Adeline Delavande and Luis Vasconcelos

Are High-Quality Schools Enough to Increase Achievement among the Poor? Evidence from the Harlem Children's Zone pp. 158-87

Will Dobbie and Roland G. Fryer

Subsidizing Vocational Training for Disadvantaged Youth in Colombia: Evidence from a Randomized Trial pp. 188-220

Orazio Attanasio, Adriana Kugler and Costas Meghir

Returns to Local-Area Health Care Spending: Evidence from Health Shocks to Patients Far from Home pp. 221-43

Joseph J. Doyle

Do Social Connections Reduce Moral Hazard? Evidence from the New York City Taxi Industry pp. 244-67

C. Kirabo Jackson and Henry Schneider

Corrigendum: Mechanisms and Impacts of Gender Peer Effects at School pp. 268-268

Victor Lavy and Analía Schlosser

Volume 3, issue 2, 2011

Mechanisms and Impacts of Gender Peer Effects at School pp. 1-33

Victor Lavy and Analia Schlosser

The Wrong Side(s) of the Tracks: The Causal Effects of Racial Segregation on Urban Poverty and Inequality pp. 34-66

Elizabeth Oltmans Ananat

Peers, Neighborhoods, and Immigrant Student Achievement: Evidence from a Placement Policy pp. 67-95

Olof Åslund, Per-Anders Edin, Peter Fredriksson and Hans Grönqvist

Schooling and the Vietnam-Era GI Bill: Evidence from the Draft Lottery pp. 96-118

Joshua Angrist and Stacey H. Chen

Conscription and Crime: Evidence from the Argentine Draft Lottery pp. 119-36

Sebastian Galiani, Martín Rossi and Ernesto Schargrodsky

Purchasing Power Parity Exchange Rates for the Global Poor pp. 137-66

Angus Deaton and Olivier Dupriez

Improving the Design of Conditional Transfer Programs: Evidence from a Randomized Education Experiment in Colombia pp. 167-95

Felipe Barrera-Osorio, Marianne Bertrand, Leigh Linden and Francisco Perez-Calle

The Price of Political Opposition: Evidence from Venezuela's Maisanta pp. 196-214

Chang-Tai Hsieh, Edward Miguel, Daniel Ortega and Francisco Rodríguez

Volume 3, issue 1, 2011

Do Teenagers Respond to HIV Risk Information? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Kenya pp. 1-34

Pascaline Dupas

Transactional Sex as a Response to Risk in Western Kenya pp. 35-64

Jonathan Robinson and Ethan Yeh

Traffic Congestion and Infant Health: Evidence from E-ZPass pp. 65-90

Janet Currie and Reed Walker

Menstruation, Sanitary Products, and School Attendance: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation pp. 91-100

Emily Oster and Rebecca Thornton

The Labor Market Returns to Cognitive and Noncognitive Ability: Evidence from the Swedish Enlistment pp. 101-28

Erik Lindqvist and Roine Vestman

Minimum Wages and Firm Profitability pp. 129-51

Mirko Draca, Stephen Machin and John van Reenen

Are Restaurants Really Supersizing America? pp. 152-88

Michael Anderson and David A. Matsa

Aftershocks: The Impact of Clinic Violence on Abortion Services pp. 189-223

Mireille Jacobson and Heather Royer

Was There Really a Hawthorne Effect at the Hawthorne Plant? An Analysis of the Original Illumination Experiments pp. 224-38

Steven Levitt and John List

Caste as an Impediment to Trade pp. 239-63

Siwan Anderson

Volume 2, issue 4, 2010

Factor Immobility and Regional Impacts of Trade Liberalization: Evidence on Poverty from India pp. 1-41

Petia Topalova

Trade Adjustment and Human Capital Investments: Evidence from Indian Tariff Reform pp. 42-75

Eric Edmonds, Nina Pavcnik and Petia Topalova

Beyond Signaling and Human Capital: Education and the Revelation of Ability pp. 76-104

Peter Arcidiacono, Patrick Bayer and Aurel Hizmo

The Flattening Firm and Product Market Competition: The Effect of Trade Liberalization on Corporate Hierarchies pp. 105-27

Maria Guadalupe and Julie Wulf

Minimum Wages and Earnings Inequality in Urban Mexico pp. 128-49

Mariano Bosch and Marco Manacorda

School Competition and Efficiency with Publicly Funded Catholic Schools pp. 150-76

David Card, Martin D. Dooley and A. Payne

(Over)insuring Modest Risks pp. 177-99

Justin Sydnor

Government Spending and Legislative Organization: Quasi-experimental Evidence from Germany pp. 200-212

Peter Egger and Marko Koethenbuerger

Put Your Money Where Your Butt Is: A Commitment Contract for Smoking Cessation pp. 213-35

Xavier Gine, Dean Karlan and Jonathan Zinman

The Importance of Being Wanted pp. 236-53

Quy-Toan Do and Tung Phung

Volume 2, issue 3, 2010

Does Wage Persistence Matter for Employment Fluctuations? Evidence from Displaced Workers pp. 1-21

Johannes Schmieder and Till von Wachter

Information, Direct Access to Farmers, and Rural Market Performance in Central India pp. 22-45

Aparajita Goyal

Information from Markets Near and Far: Mobile Phones and Agricultural Markets in Niger pp. 46-59

Jenny C. Aker

Microfinance Games pp. 60-95

Xavier Gine, Pamela Jakiela, Dean Karlan and Jonathan Morduch

Do Temporary-Help Jobs Improve Labor Market Outcomes for Low-Skilled Workers? Evidence from "Work First" pp. 96-128

David Autor and Susan Houseman

Why Have College Completion Rates Declined? An Analysis of Changing Student Preparation and Collegiate Resources pp. 129-57

John Bound, Michael Lovenheim and Sarah Turner

US Environmental Regulation and FDI: Evidence from a Panel of US-Based Multinational Firms pp. 158-89

Rema Hanna

Service Delivery and Corruption in Public Services: How Does History Matter? pp. 190-204

Priyanka Pandey

Teacher Incentives pp. 205-27

Paul Glewwe, Nauman Ilias and Michael Kremer

Dynamics of the Gender Gap for Young Professionals in the Financial and Corporate Sectors pp. 228-55

Marianne Bertrand, Claudia Goldin and Lawrence Katz

Freedom Fries pp. 256-81

Guy Michaels and Xiaojia Zhi

Volume 2, issue 2, 2010

Malaria Eradication in the Americas: A Retrospective Analysis of Childhood Exposure pp. 1-45

Hoyt Bleakley

Malaria Eradication and Educational Attainment: Evidence from Paraguay and Sri Lanka pp. 46-71

Adrienne Lucas

Early-Life Malaria Exposure and Adult Outcomes: Evidence from Malaria Eradication in India pp. 72-94

David Cutler, Winnie Fung, Michael Kremer, Monica Singhal and Tom Vogl

Ability, Gender, and Performance Standards: Evidence from Academic Probation pp. 95-117

Jason Lindo, Nicholas Sanders and Philip Oreopoulos

Modern Medicine and the Twentieth Century Decline in Mortality: Evidence on the Impact of Sulfa Drugs pp. 118-46

Seema Jayachandran, Adriana Lleras-Muney and Kimberly V. Smith

Information, Preferences, and Public Benefit Participation: Experimental Evidence from the Advance EITC and 401(k) Savings pp. 147-63

Damon Jones

Promoting Healthy Choices: Information versus Convenience pp. 164-78

Jessica Wisdom, Julie S. Downs and George Loewenstein

Disclosure by Politicians pp. 179-209

Simeon Djankov, Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes and Andrei Shleifer

An Empirical Analysis of the Gender Gap in Mathematics pp. 210-40

Roland G. Fryer and Steven Levitt

Identification of Social Interactions through Partially Overlapping Peer Groups pp. 241-75

Giacomo De Giorgi, Michele Pellizzari and Silvia Redaelli

Volume 2, issue 1, 2010

The Effect of Bans and Taxes on Passive Smoking pp. 1-32

Jerome Adda and Francesca Cornaglia

Parental Education and Child Health: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Taiwan pp. 33-61

Shin-Yi Chou, Jin-Tan Liu, Michael Grossman and Ted Joyce

Intergenerational Networks, Unemployment, and Persistent Inequality in South Africa pp. 62-85

Jeremy Magruder

Parents' Incomes and Children's Outcomes: A Quasi-experiment Using Transfer Payments from Casino Profits pp. 86-115

Randall Akee, William E. Copeland, Gordon Keeler, Adrian Angold and E. Jane Costello

The Changing Consequences of Attending Historically Black Colleges and Universities pp. 116-48

Roland G. Fryer and Michael Greenstone

Prize Structure and Information in Tournaments: Experimental Evidence pp. 149-64

Richard Freeman and Alexander Gelber

Age at Arrival, English Proficiency, and Social Assimilation among US Immigrants pp. 165-92

Hoyt Bleakley and Aimee Chin

Present-Biased Preferences and Credit Card Borrowing pp. 193-210

Stephan Meier and Charles Sprenger

Externalities in the Classroom: How Children Exposed to Domestic Violence Affect Everyone's Kids pp. 211-28

Scott Carrell and Mark Hoekstra